@article{ref1,
title="Emergency department attendance for injury and behaviours suggestive of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): a cross-sectional study",
journal="BMC pediatrics",
year="2020",
author="Conversano, Ester and Tassinari, Alice and Monasta, Lorenzo and Skabar, Aldo and Pavan, Matteo and Maestro, Alessandra and Barbi, Egidio and Cozzi, Giorgio",
volume="20",
number="1",
pages="e266-e266",
abstract="BACKGROUND: The study aimed to investigate if the behaviours suggestive of ADHD were more frequent in a population of children attending the Emergency Department (ED) for injuries, rather than for other causes.   METHODS: A cross-sectional study was carried out. Patients, aged 6 to 17 years, attending the ED for acute injuries and other causes were considered cases and controls, respectively. We used a questionnaire, which investigates the presence in the child of inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity. The primary outcome was the number of children with behaviours suggestive of ADHD in cases and controls.   RESULTS: Five hundred forty-five children were enrolled, 251 with injuries and 294 with other complains. Twenty two out of two hundred fifty one (9%) children visited for injuries, and 30 out of 294 (10%) visited for other causes had behaviours suggestive of ADHD (p = 0.661). Among these cases, children with evocative ADHD scores had a higher probability (OR 4.52; 95% CI 1.45-14.04; p = 0.009) of having had more than five previous ED accesses due to injury, compared to the others.   CONCLUSIONS: This study did non shown a difference in behaviours suggestive of ADHD between cases and controls, but identified a population of children with behaviours suggestive of ADHD who more frequently access the ED for injuries.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1471-2431",
doi="10.1186/s12887-020-02166-x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12887-020-02166-x"
}